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Dillingham Collection — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest rates on some...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by U.S. companies during 2009-2010, just after the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009. There are three issues of senior unsecured notes, one floating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The leading countries in Africa now...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
multinationals are most likely to overlook in global expansion? A: I'm quite interested in how multinationals view investments in emerging markets. My sense is that firms vary greatly in their appetite for risk in these settings and that many firms informally or...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
University, withdrawal rates dropped by 56 percent, pass rates rose 11 percent, and 45 percent of the class finished four weeks early. RANGE: Virtually any subject (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Economics,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Africa on the Move
In February, nearly 1,200 participants from twenty countries gathered at HBS for the Africa Business Club’s 11th annual conference, “Africa on the Move: Transforming Quick Wins into Lasting Change.” With some countries experiencing growth View Details
Stephen W. Sanger
Sanger began his tenure with General Mills in 1974. One of his early successes was the introduction of blue diamond marshmallows in Lucky Charms which resulted in a 15% increase in sales. During his CEO tenure, sales have increased at a View Details
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Food & Tobacco
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 24 Jan 2017
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Your Move: Making the Most of Your Next Transition (Professional or Personal)
Are you in transition or considering one in the New Year? Countless life events, like the sale of a company or a career change or an empty nest or re-entering the workforce or retirement or divorce, can leave us at the doorstep of transition.
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading operations, which reduces the...
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- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
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Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis Hine Photographs Oil Industry Photographs Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Intellectual Capital — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Instant Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange...
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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to...
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Carmen Nobel